Pi Desktop : how to upgrade to new raspbian (buster)

pcardona  After looking at the following article, I just decided to flash my SD card with a new image of Buster.  The link below does walk you through the process.

https://pimylifeup.com/upgrade-raspbian-stretch-to-raspbian-buster/

I also had an issue booting an RPi3.  I thought it was dead.  A clean install of the latest Raspbian Buster (not NOOBS) miraculously healed it.

What is pidesktop operating system?

Is it a customized Raspbian?

What is the support infrastructure behind the venture? (i.e. operating system upgrade)

Hi Sean,

- The kernel : uname -a says :

Linux raspberrypi 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

- My OS :

/etc/issue says :

Raspbian GNU/Linux 9

/etc/debian_version says :

9.11

colporteur  I have been really tempted to buy one of these things.  As I read it, the Raspberry Pi Desktop would be an image with the interface to the real time clock circuit and safe shutdown circuit already added.  I do not believe that there is much more customization of the Raspbian from there, but I could be wrong.

Hi Mike,

I was able to upgrade the OS according to your link. So I have this installation now :

- Kernel : Linux raspberrypi 4.19.97-v7+ #1294 SMP Thu Jan 30 13:15:58 GMT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux

- OS : Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (/etc/issue) / 10.4 (/etc/debian_version) : i.e. Buster, YES !

And The system is booting well now, so maybe I was missing a step the previous time I tried this upgrade. Thank You again the the good link.

But there is as specific issue :

This issue is concerning the ad hoc debian package pidesktop-base : the installation failed with this error message :

Préparation du dépaquetage de pidesktop-base-1.1.0.deb ...

Dépaquetage de pidesktop-base (1.0.0) sur (1.0.0) ...

Paramétrage de pidesktop-base (1.0.0) ...

Failed to enable unit: Unit file embest-shutdown.service does not exist.

Failed to enable unit: Unit file embest.service does not exist

If I understand well, this package needed a deprecated service 'embest' : I will see on the concerned github repository to see if this issue is reported.

Well, I will tell You about this issue soon.

Hi Mike,

I was able to upgrade the OS according to your link. So I have this installation now :

- Kernel : Linux raspberrypi 4.19.97-v7+ #1294 SMP Thu Jan 30 13:15:58 GMT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux

- OS : Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (/etc/issue) / 10.4 (/etc/debian_version) : i.e. Buster, YES !

And The system is booting well now, so maybe I was missing a step the previous time I tried this upgrade. Thank You again the the good link.

But there is as specific issue :

This issue is concerning the ad hoc debian package pidesktop-base : the installation failed with this error message :

Préparation du dépaquetage de pidesktop-base-1.1.0.deb ...

Dépaquetage de pidesktop-base (1.0.0) sur (1.0.0) ...

Paramétrage de pidesktop-base (1.0.0) ...

Failed to enable unit: Unit file embest-shutdown.service does not exist.

Failed to enable unit: Unit file embest.service does not exist

If I understand well, this package needed a deprecated service 'embest' : I will see on the concerned github repository to see if this issue is reported.

Well, I will tell You about this issue soon.

Well, I forgot to unsinstall the pidesktop first, so I resolved the issue simply like this :

1. Uninstall  first :
   sudo dpkg -r pidestop-base
2. Install again and the job is done:
   sudo dpkg -i pidestop-base-1.1.0.deb

pcardona  EXCELLENT!  Great job.  Also, welcome to the Element14 community.